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19430008931Topeka KS: Kansas State Printing Plant 1943. First edition. stapled wrappers. Very Good. 8vo 55 pages blue wrappers sunned <br/><br/>"This excellent little treatise is reliable and well annotated - 6 GUNS 2201 - Scarce." HERD 2299. Kansas State Printing Plant unknown
1997815a2022Canada: Self-Published 1997. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 143 pages. Abundantly illustrated in colour and black and white. Second book by the author. "Describes his journey through the 1980's and early 1990's. Includes the trials of meeting some difficult challenges and celebrates the rewards of meeting them and winning - winning at some cost but winning just the same." - from page 9. Len Cullen now passed away was a very successful Ontario businessman and gentleman who was respected and appreciated by many. Book clean bright and unmarked. A lovely memento to this fine man. Self-Published Paperback
1971465H0067British Columbia: Elizabeth Riley Urquhart 1971. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 52 pages. Intended to preserve the spirit vitality humour and zest for life possessed by Christopher Riley during his lifetime. Titles include: The Bear and the Sourdough The Overpopulated Jackpine Bears versus Skunks The Drunken Whiskey Jack More Courage than Judgement Excerpt from a Letter to His Wife Prospecting for Prospectors The Frog Continuing Our Education Another Engineering 'Must' On Sitting at the Head Table Proposing a Toast and Matthew Sam - Prospector. Riley's family moved from England to Canada in 1903 and eventually homesteaded at Celista B.C. He became a well-educated geologist and discovered the Endako molybdenum mine. Signed and inscribed by Mr. Riley's wife Carol Caroline upon title page. Binding intact. Above-average wear. A worthy copy of this wonderful memento. Elizabeth Riley Urquhart Paperback
1885SB17925NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1885. First Edition Early State; Title page and copyright page both dated 1885. Published without map but includes frontispiece of General Custer with protective tissue overlay. Former owner's ink signature dated 1885 on the second front free endpaper; Age-toned else textblock very clean and tight; Flat-brown endpapers. Brown cloth with gilt and black embossing on front cover and spine bumped head and foot of spine bumped corners minor surface scuffing and soiling. 312p. including appendix. Howes C980. First Edition. Illustrated Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Frontispiece Portrait By Edward F. Acuna. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Harper & Brothers Publishers Hardcover
1963124a8964USA: The Mennonite Brethren Church 1963. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 176 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. The powerful store of two missionaries of the Mennonite Brethren Church who served in Columbia. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Nice copy. The Mennonite Brethren Church Hardcover
1987B2087New York: MacMillan Publishing Co. 1987. The author resurrects the legend of "C" to write the first and definitive biography of Britain's greatest spymaster. Brown is the only writer ever to interview extensively the mysterious and reclusive Menzies and drawing from an exhaustive research effort he has finally captured the epic story of the last great defender of the British Empire. Illustrated with b/w photos. A clean bright copy. Price -intact dust jacket. First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. MacMillan Publishing Co. Hardcover
1917044660Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1917 Book. Illus. by Keene Louis. Very Good . Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Signature appears on flyleaf and is dated 1918. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown; slightly bent upper corners; a very nice clean copy. The personal narrative of a Canadien man who fought in World War 1 and his experiences in the trenches. Illustrated. 156 pages. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
1925DEMO008045INew York: Boni & Liveright 1925. First edition. stapled wrappers. fine. mounted frontis. portrait. 16mo stapled green wrappers <br/><br/>Also contributions by Edgar Lee Masters H.L. Mencken. With a mounted frontispiece portrait of Dreiser. Boni & Liveright unknown
1863DEMO009429INew York: Carleton 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Mullen w. humourous drawings. 12mo; 371 8 pages original chocolate embossed cloth bumped fore-edge lacks ffep inked number on title-page. <br/><br/>This Englishman San Francisco's first entertainer visited California via Panama with the gold rush arriving in 1849. He became an editor at the Marysville Herald the second paper started in California. His travels took him to Hawaii Australia India Europe Turkey etc. He describes Charles Dickens' first public reading in London April 15 1858. His last visit to California was in 1859. Wheat GOLD RUSH 139; Soliday II 1049; not in Smith or Howell; Cowan p.419; Smith AMER TRAVELLERS ABROAD M55. Illustrated by Mullen with humourous drawings. Carleton hardcover
23485The Flat Signed Press Nashville 2005. 8vo 9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches 563-pages. Publisher's full black leather gilt all edges gilt. With loosely inserted a signed by Aldrin C.O. A and a photograph of Aldrin at a signing. Fine. The Flat Signed Press, Nashville, 2005. hardcover
1941515H4244London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1941. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xiv 108 pages. Black and white plates. "A story of gallantry and fortitude told by a fighter pilot who fought and was badly wounded in the Battle of Britain." - Foreword. Military library stamps to endpapers and title page. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket not included. A worthy reference copy. Not found in Enser. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Hardcover
20171125559258Toronto Ont: University of Toronto Press 2017. Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper xii 432 pages : map ; 24 cml. signed by author on title"Nineteenth-century New Brunswick society was dominated by white Protestant Anglophone men. Yet during this time of state formation in Canada women increasingly helped to define and shape a provincial outlook. I wish to keep a record is the first book to focus exclusively on the life-course experiences of nineteenth-century New Brunswick women. Gail G. Campbell offers an interpretive scholarly analysis of 28 women's diaries while enticing readers to listen to the voices of the diarists. University of Toronto Press Paperback
1951046385Chicago IL: The Armour Laboratories 1951 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. DATED INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. RARE Inscribed and SIGNED copy of this collection of humorous sketches of the life of Dr. Bernhard Steinberg then Director of the Toledo Hospital Institute of Medical Research with this "biographical sketch perhaps somewhat unorthodox in its stress on the intangibles". The Armour Laboratories hardcover
1931463h5636Detroit: North American Publishing Co. Good. 1931. First Edition. Paperback. This work takes its title in part from Mr. Ford's "Dearborn Independent" magazine which declared itself the "Chronicler of the Neglected Truth". Mr. Cuningham spent five years in the employ of the Ford Motor Company in several departments including Advertising and Publicity which "Provided excellent opportunity to study the Ford system". - p.9. "This volume is an honest effort to chronicle in simple everyday language the neglected truth about Mr. Ford and his organization". - p.5. "Mr. Ford has been quoted extensively. Excerpts from especially prepared Ford publicity and from the rare occasions newspaper men actually interviewed him are reproduced. The quotations thus will serve to refresh the reader's mind and will help him to measure their true worth when read in conjunction with the writer's statements of fact." - p.6. The twenty-three chapters include such titles as: The Home Wrecker Eating - An Exact Science Coercion Republican or Democrat Ford and the Jews and Natural Attrition. 5 6-186 1 pp. 8.25" x 5.25" Undated but appears to be circa 1931. Unmarked with average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound vintage example of this fascinating work.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Ford Henry -- 1863-1947. Ford Motor Company. W.M. Cuningham . North American Publishing Co. paperback
1981322G3491USA: Self-Published 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 129 pages. Glossary. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. Author's annotated business card laid-in. Abundantly illustrated in color and black and white. Takes readers back to her childhood - describes adventures trials and tribulations and pleasurable experiences too of being born in a large family which grew up on Mother Lode country. - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Self-Published Hardcover
1990BOOKS116757IPhiladelphia: Affie Enterprises. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1990. 1st. hardcover. 8vo 262 pp. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. . Affie Enterprises hardcover
23487The Flat Signed Press Nashville 2005. 8vo 9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches 262-pages. Publisher's full black leather gilt all edges gilt. Orange silk endpapers. With loosely inserted a signed by Aldrin C.O. A . Fine. The Flat Signed Press, Nashville, 2005. hardcover
1915067059Privately Printed 1915 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. A rare signed volume. Inscription and signature appear on flyleaf dated 1915. Author Joseph S. Auerbach was a prominant early Twentieth Century New York Attorney. Book is lightly worn typical for its age and is in adequate readable condition. Privately Printed hardcover
1976322H1172Canada: Self-Published 1976. Book. Good. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author upon title page. 124 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. "A true saga of the north and a white man who found the peace and contentment there that civilization had denied him." - Foreword. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Self-Published Paperback
19992802<p>New York NY: Henry Holt and Company. Hardcover. 1999. First Edition; 1st Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.</p> Henry Holt and Company hardcover
1970064133Alliance Nebraska: Iron Man Industries 1970 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Inscribed & signed by author. Inscription appears on flyleaf and reads: "That the memories of our pioneer parents and grand-parents shall never die - is the wish of your friend Mae Manion". Book only has minor wear; dust jacket is a bit more worn with soils fading edge chips foxing etc. A nice copy overall. Iron Man Industries hardcover
1930464H4438Chesterville Ontario: Self-Published 1930. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 34 65 pages. Illustrated covers. 19 x 14 cm. Author was born in 1883 in Dundas County Ontario and raised on a farm in Grenville County Ontario. He grew to become a poet and evangelist with a strong interest in harness racing. Above-average wear and soiling with moisture staining to top edge of all pages. Considerable writing upon first blank leaf. A rough but worthy reading copy of this interesting and uncommon early Ontario life story. Self-Published Paperback
1899028041London: Burns & Oates. 1899. viii 206pp two appendices. Prelims and endpages foxed. Or red cloth boards toned at the spine with gilt titles now almost illegible. From the Preface 'This little work on the character and doings of Hugh Peters 1598-1660 is meant for the edification and entertainment of those persons who are so constituted as to be unable to fall in love with regicides however saintly they are asserted to have been.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus. 8vo. Burns & Oates. Hardcover
1909SB11542NY: Cochrane Publishing Company 1909. First Edition; Minor aging to end pages else textblock is clean and tight. B&W plates and frontispiece. Green cloth with gilt stamped lettering and decoration on front cover slight bumping and fraying to head and foot of spine bumped corners. 167pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Frontispiece/Plates. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. Cochrane Publishing Company Hardcover
1948612367London: Odhams Press Limited 1948. Hardcover in very good condition with elegant deco esque unclipped dust jacket in good condition for its age. Signed dated and dedicated by the author. Jacket is marked and scuffed. Edges are creased and torn including a few chips. Small closed tear on the spine front side. Board spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block is tanned. Boards are clean binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used. Odhams Press Limited Hardcover